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For instance,
lambda is substituted for rho, a letter which was
always a stumbling-block to Demosthenes; our l
and r have of course the same value.1 Similarly
when c and g are not given their full value, they
are softened into t and d.
1 The mis-spelling of flagro as fraglo exemplifies the confusion to which Quintilian refers. A similar, though correct, substitution is found in lavacrum for lavaclum, etc. See Lindsay, Lat. Langu., pp. 92 ff.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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